Why Quora Will Fail

I've written one or two answers on Quora, and have already blogged about its failings; the questions soon become tiresome and an alternative reality takes over, certain opinions are tolerated while others are not. I'm not even convinced the quality of answers are better than Yahoo Answers.

But that doesn't mean it will fail. Why then do I think it will soon fail? The writers who take time to provide the content have no way of earning anything from the work they do, that's why. Compare this with Amazon; there you write an article and can then sell it on Kindle. Or maybe write several articles and call it a book. Jeff Bezos is onto a winner, he has all this content being provided. Most don't earn that much but they do provide it. Quora on the other hand must run out of puff, why write for no reward when you could be writing and earning on Amazon? See?

Quora: Is It Any Good?

Simple answer: it's not that good really. Quora is a question and answer site, and performing the same way Yahoo answers does. Not particularly innovative then, so to be successful Quora needed to have quality answers. Things started out well but then it went the way of all question and answer sites; the questions became inane and the answers poor in quality. Facts flew out the window.

I've provided a few answers on Quora but it is obvious which direction the site is headed in so I'll scale down the amount of time I spend there, maybe no time at all.